Pause and effect
Subtitle: an introduction to the history of punctuation in the West
By: M.B. Parkes.
Publisher: Scolar Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Punctuation -- History.
Description: From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly debates among writers, literary critics, philosophers, linguists, rhetoricians, palaeographers and all those who study the use of language -- publisher description.
Notes: Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. [315]-327.